Creusot: A Deductive Verifier for Proving Rust Code Correctness
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Summary
Creusot is a deductive verifier tool for Rust code that helps developers prove their code is correct. It verifies safety from panics, overflows, and assertion failures, and with annotations can verify that code behaves correctly. The tool works by translating Rust code to Coma, an intermediate verification language of the Why3 Platform, allowing users to leverage Why3's capabilities to automatically discharge verification conditions.
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It verifies your code is safe from panics, overflows, and assertion failures.
By adding annotations you can take it further and verify your code does the correct thing.
Creusot works by translating Rust code to Coma, an intermediate verification language of the Why3 Platform.
Users can then leverage the full power of Why3 to (semi)-automatically discharge the verification conditions!
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